For students of early PC history, this isn’t even the first piece of 86-DOS history that has been newly rediscovered this ...

This is a rare look at the tech giant's first operating system ...

History painstakingly preserved.

The software that helped build Microsoft into what it is today has been open-sourced on GitHub. The release marks 45 years ...

The source code for 86-DOS 1.00, the OS that eventually became MS-DOS and Windows, is now available on GitHub.

Microsoft has officially released another significant piece of DOS history. The "Paterson Listings" include the earliest ...

In context: Back in 1980, Tim Paterson was creating a new operating system he called QDOS or Quick and Dirty Operating System. The system was later renamed 86-DOS, as it was being designed to run on ...

On this day in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded a company called Micro-Soft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The two men had worked together before, as members of the Lakeside Programming group in ...

It might seem like the days of MS-DOS were a lifetime ago because…well, they basically were. Version 6.22 of the venerable operating system, the last standalone release, came out back in 1994. That ...

Doing software archaeology can be a harrowing task, as rarely do you find complete snapshots of particular versions of ...

You can now play classic DOS games on your Mac in your browser, thanks to the online service DOS_deck. Here's how to use it. At the dawn of the personal computer era ...